Tuesday Night Fight Pre-Game! White Scars vs. Tau

We’ve got a great game coming your way Tuesday night! Frankie’s new Tau list (which you can read about here) vs. Raw Dogger’s nasty White Scars Battle Company! Be sure to join us for the live show starting at 7pm PST on our Twitch channel.

Here’s Jason’s list!

Jason Butler

1850pts

White Scars Battle Company

Size

Cost

Size

Cost

HQ

10th Company Task Force

Khan

1

125

Scouts

5

55

Chaplain – Hunters Eye

1

110

Scouts

5

55

CCS – 5x Melta Gun, Drop Pod

5

130

Scouts – Sniper Rifles

5

60

Troops

Tactical Squad – Combi-Grav, Grav Cannon, Rhino

5

115

Tactical Squad – Combi-Grav, Grav Cannon, Rhino

5

115

Tactical Squad – Combi-Grav, Grav Cannon, Rhino

5

115

Tactical Squad – Combi-Grav, Grav Cannon, Rhino

5

115

Tactical Squad – Combi-Melta, Melta Gun, Multi-Melta, Dpod

10

170

Tactical Squad – Combi-Melta, Melta Gun, Multi-Melta, Dpod

10

170

Elites

Fast Attack

Attack Bike – Multi Melta

1

50

Attack Bike – Multi Melta

1

50

Heavy Support

Inquisition

Devesators – 2x Grav Cannon, Rhino

5

140

Inquisitor – 3x Servo

1

34

Devesators – 2x Grav Cannon, Rhino

5

140

Coteaz

1

100

Lord of War

Fortifications

Detachment Totals

59

1545

17

304

Grand Total

76

1849

And Frankie’s monstrosity!

CAD

HQ

Commander- Drone Commander, Suit

Troop

Firewarrior x5

Firewarrior x5

Fast Attack

Drone x8- Marker

Lord of War

Stormsurge x2- Early Warning, Twin-linked Burst Cannon, Shield

Riptide Wing

Riptide- Early Warning, Stim, Twin-linked Smart Missile

Riptide- Early Warning, Stim, Twin-linked Smart Missile

Riptide- Early Warning, Stim, Twin-linked Smart Missile

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This is going to be a brutal and bloody game! A lot of it will come down to first turn. Jason has the advantage there with Coteaz allowing him to reroll his seize roll, and he will additionally get a +1 due to Frankie having a LoW. With the raw firepower being thrown around here, he who shoots first will likely shoot last.

Stormsurges have the potential to shrug off a lot of “heavy duty” firepower thanks to 4++ and FNP, but they also have the potential to just eat some Krak/Bolter/Scatter fire and roll over to die. T6/3+ ain’t that great for shrugging normal shots, just ask Tyranids.

While this Tau list is very good it is also very susceptible to anyone going first and hitting it hard because of the low model count and reliance on marker lights to be effective. And since reserves tactics do not benefit this particular list i would instead capitalize on range and smart deployment of the army by using the classic void shield.

I predict Khan will charge into the Stormsurge with his mighty moonfang and forge the best of the narratives as he his all his swings, and insta wounds all his wounds and Frankie fails all his Invulnerable saves and Jason rolls 15 Total Wounds from his 5 Insta Death Wounds on the Gargantuan.

My money is on Frankie, mainly because he’s got the experience advantage. After all, he’s the guy who gave Rawdogger pointers on running a White Scars Battle Company. Naturally, Frankie should know how to play against it/counter-deploy it.

I think I would actually have a fair game against ye old Flanklin’s Tau. One thing Deldar excel at is beating down low model count armies. It would largely come down to deployment and who strikes first but it would be good! That said, I don’t think this a fair fight. Not because of Rawdog’s ability, but because I still remember “The little vortex that could”. Lol